Manor News

Two Manor Township men were charged recently with possessing child pornography on their home computers.

Two Manor Township men have been charged with allegedly possessing child pornography on their home computers.

Tim Harff, of Bernice Drive in North Huntingdon, has set his family's massive lights display to music by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

Dec. 16, 1944, was a cold, frightening day. Sixty-five years ago today -- in the midst of one of the worst European winters on record -- the Army was stunned by a huge German military offensive on the western front of World War II.

Regular visitors to the Thursday evening VFW spaghetti dinners, and parishioners at the Presbyterian Church, both in Manor, are thankful for knowing Wilbert Jones.

A retired police officer and former West Newton firefighter who was the beneficiary of a department fundraiser after suffering a heart attack at a house fire two years ago was charged yesterday with pocketing more than $6,000 in rental fees for the fire company's events center.

A Springdale man who is already facing serious charges in 17 other cases has been sentenced to serve five to 10 years in prison for robbing and kidnapping a Tarentum woman in 2004.

The 15-year-old son of a Manor man killed by his cousin on Thanksgiving Day 2008 told a Westmoreland County judge on Monday that he wanted to see the shooter "die in prison." Instead, Michael C. McFarland, 31, of Jeannette could be released from prison after he serves the minimum 18-month sentence imposed yesterday for shooting Jason Lee Fry during ...

Most residents in the Alle-Kiski Valley will not see a property tax increase for next year, according to the 2010 preliminary budgets of local governments.

Maneuvering around the cramped Manor Fire Department is tough, but making a left turn with a fire truck onto Main Street requires extreme maneuvers.

Team 4 investigative reporter Paul Van Osdol reported that 77-year-old Gene Cable checked into Scottdale Manor last November.

Sinking Spring Borough Council has voted 4-2 not to adopt an anti-nepotism ordinance.

A dinner/dance benefit for motorcycle accident victims Charlie and Debbie Allshouse will be held beginning at 5 p.m. Saturday at the Power Play Sports Bar, Craigdell Road, New Kensington.

"...ELA recommends that North Reservoir become a three-lane street with the right lane restricted to bus traffic, the middle lane for student drop-offs from vehicles and the left lane for through traffic..." How will a student get from the drop off lane without confronting buses and through traffic to get to the school? Talkback Addict Group: ...

Charles Gordon, 89, president and chairman of Carver W. Reed & Company, Inc., and partner of Harry Gordon & Sons, died Oct.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] Harry Deitz/For The News-Item Taking part in the retrieval of DNA samples from the gravesite of a man whose body was found in the Susquehanna River in Lower Augusta Township in August 1986 Tuesday at the Northumberland County Mountain View Cemetery are, from left, Rod Faust, cemetery worker; Dean Benedict, from the ...

The last day that her family and friends saw her, Lilly Colon-Torres went to Walmart with her mom and one of her sisters.

Pocono Manor, Pennsylvania, October 2009 ... The Inn at Pocono Manor, which opened in 1902 and is the oldest continuously operating resort in the Poconos and one of the oldest in North America, has named Gregory T. Corvelle Assistant General Manager.

A Westmoreland County mother is charged with criminal homicide after her baby was left alone in a bathtub and died, but her friends call her a good mother who made a tragic mistake.

A fire in a third-floor apartment in Columbia sent a tenant to the hospital for smoke inhalation.